A young mom who was left paralyzed after a shooting that killed her son's father is back on her feet just ten months later and has vowed to walk again.

Sinead McCall, 27, said she and Kristopher Reed, 25, the father of her four-year-old son, had just enjoyed a shopping trip together in South Shore, Chicago, when the nightmare unfolded at around 11.25am on April 17 last year.

'Everything felt normal. I was just about to pull away when as I was checking my rear view mirror I saw a boy running on the side of the car,' she said.

'Everything felt normal:' Mom Sinead McCall was shot in the back and elbow last April

'Then I saw that he had a gun and he started shooting. I was screaming and crying. He shot me in the back and elbow. He let out a whole round in the gun.'

'I just remember as he was shooting my son's father was telling me to pull off and I really wish I could have but there was nothing else I could do.'

'I fell out of the car and I couldn't move. I couldn't get up or run.'

'I watched as the life left his fathers body and blood poured out like something from a movie. A total of 11 bullets entered the car but I survived.'

A passerby dialed 911 and and Sinead was taken to Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, suffering internal bleeding while Kristopher died at the scene.

She spent two weeks at the hospital where she was put on life support and underwent reconstructive surgery on her right elbow and was fitted with a brace to support her spine.